August 1G, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



155 



H. E. FROMENT 



Wholesale ComrrMtsaon Florist 

 Choice Cut Flowers 



Mew litaM, 1*» W«t Mtfc it, xiw ion 

 DM. SMI. MXliM (gun. 



— WIVL P- FORD 1 



Wholesale Florist 



107 W. 2«tb Street, NEW Y88K 



Telephone 5335. F"arr»rat 



Call end lnipeet the Beet BetabUameat 



In the Wholesale Flower District. 



WALTER F. SHERIDAN 



Wholesale) Commission Dealer In 



CHOICE CUT FLOWERS 



1SS Wee* *8th Street, New York 



GEO. C. SIEBRECHT 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



IOS» WKST aa-fch SIT 



CONSIGN MENTS SOLICITED 

 mOHI^OJjr-AMUarjT NEW YORK 



E. G.HILL CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



RIOHMOND, INC*. 

 WMI -«tl.» Heritealtara when -rlU»«. 



RCED <SL KELLER 



188 West 25th St., New York 



Florists' Supplies 



We manufacture all oar 



iitil Designs, Baskets, Wire Werk & Novelties 



and are dealers in 



Decorative Glassware, Growers and 



Florists' ReanlBltes 



THE KERVAN CO 



Freeh Oat D «i » »U t. Ii.|iim 



Hlcheet Standard of Quality. Large* 

 Btoek In America. Write for IUaatxmfcea 

 Catalog ef Oreena end Fiorina' SnppUee 



119 W. 28th St., - - NEW YORK 



WILLIAM H. KUEBLER 



Brooklyn'. Foremo.t and Best 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION HOUSE 



» Firet CUue Merke* to. »J CUT -H i WEB" 



m Willoughbv St Brooklyn N. 1 

 WE WANT MORE SHIPPERS 



We have a numerous clientage of New 

 York City buyers and the demand exceeds 

 our supply. This is especially true of 

 Roses. We have every facility and abund- 

 ant means and best returns are assured 

 for stock consigned to us. 



Address Your Shipments to 



UNITED CUT FLOWER CO., INC. 



Ill W. 28th St., New York 



D. J. I'appas, Pre.. 



HENRY M. ROBINSON CO. OF NEW YORK 



B. A. SNYDER CO. %*"!: 



Hardy Cut Evergreens, Cut Flowers and Florists Supplies 



21-25 Otis Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephone Fort Hill 1083-1084-1085 



William F. Kasting Co. 



Wholesale Florists 

 5e* 570 WASHINGTON STREET ■ BUFFALO, N. Y. 



New England Florist Supply Co. 



276 Devonshire Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones, Fort Hill, 3469 and 3135 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



6e*eis»«at> fceUettod 

 Hardy Fancy Fern Our Specialty 



264 RANDOLPH ST., DETROIT, MICH. 



The Houee for Quality and Service 



ZECH & MANN 



Mr 4 We are Wholesale Florists Doing 

 a Strictly Wholesale Business 



30 East Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



ness, however, use the watering can 

 until sufficient moisture is obtained. 



In laying the beds have two men do 

 the operation, one to shake up and 

 throw in the manure, and the other to 

 pack in the material firmly and even. 

 Lay the beds firmly, about 14 to 16 

 inches thick and then pound or tramp 

 down to about 10 to 12 inches. Place 

 a thermometer in the bed and when 

 after a tew days the temperature has 

 subsided to 85 or 80 degrees spawn 

 the bed. Fresh American pure cul- 

 ture spawn is always reliable and will 

 produce a good crop of solid fine fla- 

 vored mushrooms. Break up the 

 bricks of spawn into pieces about 3 

 to 4 inches square, place over the bed 

 12 to 14 inches apart. Take a trowel 

 and plant in the bed so that each 

 piece will be covered with about 1 

 inch of manure. Firm the bed down, 

 smooth and level. In about ten days 

 or two weeks cover the bed over with 

 some good garden soil passed through 

 a rather coarse sieve, spread out level 

 and firm down to an inch thickness. 



The ideal temperature in a mushroom 

 house is 55 degrees. In the summer 



months it is sometimes hard to keep 

 the temperature down below 60 to 65 

 degrees, but by keeping the floor well 

 sprinkled and the place tight and dark 

 in the day time and by opening the 

 door or ventilator wide by night or 

 even having a large cake of ice on the 

 floor, the temperature may be kept be- 

 low 70 degrees most of the time. If 

 the room stays around 70 degrees for 

 any length of time the whole crop is 

 liable to be ruined as maggots will be 

 sure to develop. As soon as the beds 

 show signs of dryness, they should be 

 given a sprinkling of tepid water in 

 which a handful of nitrate of soda has 

 been dissolved to each two gallons of 

 water. 



Pick the mushrooms by twisting 

 them up from the bed. After each 

 picking go over the beds, pick up all 

 rotted dead heads or withered small 

 specimens and fill in all holes with 

 soil. After the beds have been in 

 bearing for some time and the crop 

 shows signs of weakening, sieve a 

 layer of good moist soil over the 

 whole bed. Water this, using tepid 

 water and nitrate of soda as mentioned 



